Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI003146
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3
Case Name Seized by Captain D. MacKenzie
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 2186
Person Name Badagang
Alternative or Transcribed Name Batajang
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 18
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'8
Height (in) 68
Height (cm) 132.08
Physical Characteristics Lumps, Lumps
Transcribed Description A lump on the forefinger of his hand marks cover the skin of the upper jaw a mark over his right eyebrow
Digits
Disposal
Language Association
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
Travel & Court Related Information
Government Department Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court Condemned Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown
Embarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-11-14
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 2170-2184
Digitization Endangered Archives Programme, 2009. “Before the War, After the War: Preserving History in Sierra Leone,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP284; Endangered Archives Programme, 2011. “Nineteenth Century Documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP443.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V60006
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)